113 questions, written down.

Life is always moving.

By Sameer Kamboj

Every morning, before you open your eyes, a toss has already happened. You didn’t call it. You weren’t asked. And yet the result shapes everything — what you reach for, what you…

By Sameer Kamboj

Earth Day is celebrated once a year. And forgotten for the other 364.

By Sameer Kamboj

At SKC, we often talk about something we call IKB—‘I Know Better’ syndrome. It shows up in small moments: skipping a podcast because we think we’ve heard it before, glazing over a…

By Sameer Kamboj

Not long ago, I asked ChatGPT a seemingly simple question: What are the greatest obstacles to human innovation? The response was neat, structured, and impressive in its alignment…

By Sameer Kamboj

What is success?

By Sameer Kamboj

We often think time is our enemy. We rush. We chase. We schedule every minute, believing that if we could just manage time better, we would finally feel in control.

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“What is not consciously resolved becomes unconsciously repeated.”

By Sameer Kamboj

“Sameer, how do I stay calm when I’m burning inside?”

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Mahashivratri, the Great Night of Shiva, is not just a festival; it is a cosmic phenomenon, a spiritual gateway that seekers must not let pass unnoticed. It is a night of profound…

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Ajai Mehta had everything -- intelligence, charisma, success. But above all, he had certainty.

By Sameer Kamboj

We often talk about building culture—defining values, designing rituals, writing handbooks. But culture isn’t crafted through documents. It’s shaped by what we allow, overlook,…

By Sameer Kamboj

Most of us spend far too much energy in the circle of concern—worrying about things we can’t control.

By Sameer Kamboj

Everyone seems to be in a hurry. Rushing through emails, speeding through meetings, chasing targets. Somewhere along the way, speed became the default…

By Sameer Kamboj

I truly thought I had it all figured out. A #treasury job in a reputed private company. A good salary. Better prospects. Everything my family had imag…

By Sameer Kamboj

There was a time when every number was handwritten. Every total, calculated by hand. And I took pride in being fast, accurate – busy.

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At one point, I had a choice, to keep rising in the system I knew, or step into the unknown. Everything logical said, stay.

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Stepping away sounded romantic. In truth, it was anything but. We left behind steady paychecks, familiar faces, and a rhythm we could count on. In ret…

By Sameer Kamboj

Raju, now 47 years old, recently paid a visit to his parents. Over the years, he has made sure to fill their home with every conceivable luxury which would help make them…

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On one hand, a set of humanity is confused and questions: who is a Guru? What does a Guru do? Why does one need a Guru? On the other hand, there is a set that questions the very…

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Guru Purnima, a full-moon day, coincides with the monsoon season being in full swing across the country. It marks the end of the oppressive summer season and scorching…

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Just as a nation is made up of its citizens, a Republic is the outcome of its citizen’s individual consciousness.

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An Overall context of how human minds get conditioned

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Are you a Conscious Decision Maker? Or is your Decision Making Unconscious?

By Sameer Kamboj

Our mindset shapes our experiences and influences our outcomes. It's not just about positive thinking; it's about cultivating a mindset of possibilities and growth. When we…

By Sameer Kamboj

Recently, senior leaders have suggested that young employees must start putting in 70 hours a week to be more competitive. Others have opposed this suggestion, arguing that it is…

By Sameer Kamboj

On Vijay Dashami we mark the triumph of good over evil. And, on the surface that story works very well. But, if we see it only in those terms, we will lose out on the true…

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Often we are scared of our own dreams. We should be. Yes, you read it right... We SHOULD be.

By Sameer Kamboj

I have been visiting Rishikesh and the hills since I was young. And, I have always tried mybest to be a conscious traveller, taking care of the ecosystem as I travel. This time, I…

By Sameer Kamboj

Have you ever noticed how some people seem to be on an endless quest for happiness, yet they never appear to find it? This endless pursuit often leads to a paradox where the more…

By Sameer Kamboj

#fundingwinter

By Sameer Kamboj

Two things are essential for fulfilling any desire, whether big or small; or achieving any goal, no matter how major or minor: possibility and potential.

By Sameer Kamboj

The three scariest words in corporate jargon are often "Let us meet." In many organizations, meetings have become synonymous with inefficiency and frustration. Why? Because most…

By Sameer Kamboj

Let's talk about the essence of entrepreneurship: purpose. In the pursuit of building a successful business, it's easy to get caught up in revenue gen…

By Sameer Kamboj

I recently met a fine entrepreneur who had been in the field of health care for some time now. I usually try to engage with a person, than having the…

By Sameer Kamboj

Our journey back to Delhi from Rishikesh, a beautiful town nestled by the banks of the Ganges on the foothills of the Himalayas, was a pleasant - unpleasant experience. What was…

By Sameer Kamboj

Happiness is quite an elusive thing. People seek it simply because they feel an absence of happiness. We often confuse happiness with pleasures, and pursue those in the illusion…

By Sameer Kamboj

The mistakes we make are rooted in attempting exploration while remaining entangled in the web of our compulsive personalities. Here, mistakes are in reference to scaling up our…

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As I begin to share the 4th mistake, I hope you have gone through Mistakes 1, 2, and 3 and are ready for a deeper dive within. As always, read this article for self-realization.…

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By now, you know that “Scaling up Joyfully” is the theme for this “10 Mistakes” series. This post is especially for those who can scale up their wealth, fame, and influence, but…

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Humans struggle with memory loss.

By Sameer Kamboj

Every small organisation initially depends on its founders. In their journey of scale and growth, founders need dependable people who can effectively execute their ideas. Hence,…

By Sameer Kamboj

What is your primary motivation for starting a business venture? Money, wealth, fame, a cause, a problem to be solved, a vision you want to bring to life? If you are clear about…

By Sameer Kamboj

How many times have you told yourself that I love challenges? You do this to motivate yourself and to set yourself up for the long haul. And then, the game begins. You accumulate…

By Sameer Kamboj

When you come across a great business idea and decide to execute it through an entrepreneurial venture, you might make the 5th Mistake - not going into detail. No matter how good…

By Sameer Kamboj

“10 Mistakes” is a series I’m sharing with you. Read this with an intent to self-realise. Read each word well. As you do so, your mind may try to distract you or reject what you…

By Sameer Kamboj

A large part of our life is invested in activities that we feel will lead to more success. Of course, our perspectives about success are different. However, all our pursuits are…

By Sameer Kamboj

Diwali's imagery of light read as the inner spark or guiding voice — and how competition, conditioning and external pressure obscure it.

By Sameer Kamboj

Nine nights read not as customary observance but as a question about the feminine form of the Devi and the relationship between cosmic movement and human evolution.

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What is Success? Really, what is it? A question that confounds most right up to their graves. Something that they pursue all their life, with all their might, struggle and yet do…

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What is this life really about? As a child, this was the only question that confounded me. No book or a teacher that I met gave me this answer. Most asked me to look the other…

By Sameer Kamboj

Pre or post #pandemic, humanity remains driven by its emotions. These are mostly compulsive and it's the fundamental human struggle of choosing between compulsion or liberation.

By Sameer Kamboj

Shifting, stage-dependent definitions of success and the habit of chasing moving targets through struggle and formulas.

By Sameer Kamboj

Whether acceptance is passive resignation or mature inner evolution — the distinction between escaping a situation and genuinely seeing it.

By Shalini Kamboj

The post-COVID new normal as an amplifier of existing emotional patterns — justification, escape, denial, aggression — rather than a change of kind.

By Sameer Kamboj

A return to the foundational question, refusing second-hand answers: why do we spend a life preserving perishable things?

By Sameer Kamboj

Execution requires a Balance between An amazing plan/ Idea and the in-depth executable though.

By Sameer Kamboj

We all make mistakes. Many of us look back at them in order to learn from them. But end up making the bigger mistake, I.E. we end up worrying or brooding, instead of thinking of a…

By Sameer Kamboj

This is the 4th Big mistake made by Entrepreneurs on their path to Scaling Up… Emotional Vulnerability. Even after becoming Emotionally Intelligent, we can be vulnerable when we…

By Sameer Kamboj

While everyone wants to Grow in their lives, become rich, powerful and famous, some of us want it even more than others. There are multiple underlying causes of these varying…

By Sameer Kamboj

In order to arrive at a conclusion, one must understand the relationship between an entrepreneur and the Enterprise.

By Sameer Kamboj

Why would someone plan for failure? It is a funny thought but then why do so many plans fail to see the light of success? It is one thing to say that the plan went wrong, but…

By Sameer Kamboj

We can either cope with life or participate in it. Those who are coping, usually do not scale up and start looking out for contentment, satisfaction, solace, retirement,…

By Sameer Kamboj

Welcome back to the last blog of the series of “10 mistakes an Entrepreneur makes while Scaling up”

By Sameer Kamboj

In my personal experience of working with 1000s of people and organisations, I notice that talent and ideas alone are not sufficient for Innovation. We need to overcome 3 Big…

By Sameer Kamboj

You have brilliant ideas, you hire the best people, you try and communicate with them to the best of your capabilities, but your people still are misaligned to your vision and…

By Sameer Kamboj

Emotional intelligence distinguished from emotional consciousness — managing emotions can still leave the underlying compulsion untouched.

By Sameer Kamboj

Two decades of SKC World from its beginnings in 1999, and the growing acceptance that scale and joy are not opposed.

By Sameer Kamboj

Talent and ideas alone do not produce innovation; recurring personal and organisational obstacles stop ideas becoming value.

By Sameer Kamboj

Why hacks and systems fail when underlying behaviour, ownership and conscious choice stay the same.

By Sameer Kamboj

The contradiction of appearing calm while boiling internally, and addressing the source of conflict rather than its cosmetics.

By Sameer Kamboj

Scaling an enterprise without proportionately scaling suffering — a response to growth accompanied by stress and lifestyle disease.

By Sameer Kamboj

Living by values when the less scrupulous appear to win — and whether winning should outrank principle.

By Sameer Kamboj

Body, mind and emotions as tools that begin operating autonomously — and an inner process for regaining agency.

By Sameer Kamboj

Conscious kindness separated from compulsive niceness — buying peace to avoid doing what one believes is right.

By Sameer Kamboj

Reflections from Anaavaran sessions and intensive meditative practice on reducing compulsive emotional patterns.

By Sameer Kamboj

How much of the constructed self arises from relative comparison across intellect, appearance, status and circumstance.

By Sameer Kamboj

Anxious future projection, seen through everyday business questions about sales, meetings and other people's responses.

By Sameer Kamboj

Inherited rituals of celebration questioned, from childhood discomfort toward a more conscious look at what makes a day meaningful.

By Sameer Kamboj

The series opens beneath approval-seeking behaviour, at the emotional causes that make external validation feel necessary.

By Sameer Kamboj

Productivity in work and business is an imperative need. Reduced productivity or lack of it can hit really hard and to avoid this, people choose to ta…

By Sameer Kamboj

One of the greatest fears I have witnessed in people is of their own Inconsistency. This one factor causes so much guilt and remorse in people, that t…

By Sameer Kamboj

Entrepreneurship, one of the most likable of positions in the world of businesses, it carries such an awe to its name. Never the less do not get mesme…

By Sameer Kamboj

One can definitely see a great leap that has occurred in terms of family business. From an informal setup the businesses now have a more structured fo…

By Sameer Kamboj

This is the new trend. Everyone either is an established Leader or wishes to be one. And all are quick to ride the bandwagon of Leadership. Well… I me…

By Sameer Kamboj

In this article I discuss an important obstacle to human accomplishment – GOALS.

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“If life were the way we always wanted it to be, the whole romance would become stale.”

By Sameer Kamboj

Leadership attrition refers to a phenomenon when top level management or partners exit an organisation. There are many reasons and explanations given…

By Sameer Kamboj

The thing we as human beings are capable of doing is to evolve out of our compulsions and do the right things in each block of time. The ability of human beings to manage…

By Sameer Kamboj

Planning leadership succession is the most common problem faced, while running an organisation. An entrepreneur or a business owner formulates an idea, but it is his leaders who…

By Sameer Kamboj

Whether a change of calendar date is reason enough to celebrate, or whether a year has to be consciously created.

By Sameer Kamboj

From an SKC Samarth gathering of 100+ entrepreneurs: uncertainty engaged consciously rather than met with overwhelm.

By Sameer Kamboj

An anniversary reflection on the move from need-based partnership to two people helping each other rise above limitation.

By Sameer Kamboj

A provocation against founder-centric, short-horizon thinking: succession as a way to surface assumptions and structural weakness.

By Sameer Kamboj

Meditation less as isolated technique, more as a way of relating consciously to suffering, pain and emotional weather.

By Sameer Kamboj

A practical morning self-check on energy, tasks, visualisation and priority — a day designed rather than merely unfolding.

By Sameer Kamboj

The series closes on the gap between knowing and doing: complexity resolves only when insight becomes behaviour.

By Sameer Kamboj

From a Samvaad mastermind: reducing dependence on the founder so the enterprise can outlast a generation.

By Sameer Kamboj

Inner state treated not as cosmetic extra but as a multiplier of decision quality and execution.

By Sameer Kamboj

Expectations as a distorting force — identifying their causes and effects so decisions can be made with clarity.

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Grace: hard to grasp intellectually, simpler through practice and embodied application.

By Sameer Kamboj

Widening the frame of a decision beyond a narrow, self-centred perspective to include stakeholders and consequences.

By Sameer Kamboj

Time horizons as both a source of complexity and a source of clarity in everyday and business decisions.

By Sameer Kamboj

Discipline as foundation: recurring complexity reduced through conscious practice rather than endless analysis.

By Sameer Kamboj

The leader's anxiety when people do not deliver — doing everything oneself, or creating fear, examined and set aside.

By Sameer Kamboj

A weekend note grounded in Delhi's season, using the month's last Saturday as a pause for awareness.

By Sameer Kamboj

Energy spent analysing other people's behaviour, redirected toward personal agency and one's own responses.

By Sameer Kamboj

The mental split between work and celebration during India's festive season, and a steadier way to hold both.

By Sameer Kamboj

Genuine realisation contrasted with the mind's talent for justifying the habits and beliefs it already holds.

By Sameer Kamboj

Growth framed as a systemic leadership challenge rather than a one-time initiative.

By Sameer Kamboj

The psychological division between weekday and weekend questioned, and rest rethought as more than disengagement.

By Sameer Kamboj

Nature's continuous activity set against human disengagement — created outside us, or by our own interpretation?

By Sameer Kamboj

Keeping faith while trying to do right — and the filters, convictions and justifications that hide the truth from us.

By Sameer Kamboj